Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Scrapping the Hard Stuff

When I looked at the January Mood Board it gave me an overall feeling of pensiveness or reflection. That makes for an odd place to jump into a scrapbook layout but as I was reflecting, I knew there was one major time in our family life that I had been putting off scrapbooking: the day my son had a seizure. I know and believe it's important to scrapbook the hard stories because, they too, are part of the whole story. But it's generally more fun to remember the happy moments. That said, this was one of the most significant moments in my son's life to date as well as in my life as a parent. It had to be done. The colors and overall feel of the mood board gave me the inspiration to move forward and tackle this project. Let's take a look at my creation.

You might also notice that I picked up on the color scheme and design of one of the pillows in the picture and used that as my design jumping off point.

Many times when I create I have lots of layers and lots of products but for today's layout things are clean and simple!

I started with my title "There Goes My Heart" based on the lyrics of a country song. Adding that to the white space around one of the pictures allows it to pop out a little more and not get lost in all the patterns.

I added a couple of layers of patterned papers beneath my pictures, which are also matted with patterned papers. Using my title as inspiration I used Puffy Heart Stickers and my main embellishment. I wanted to have those surrounding his picture but also close to the journaling to help emphasize both of those.

My journaling is really the star of the layout. The pictures show how awful he looked but the journaling gives a glimpse into what I was feeling. The gray background behind it is a mood setter for that moment. A border sticker helps to separate it from the rest of the layout and allow it to pop out.

My process video will give you a glimpse at how this all came together: